Example Sentences

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Human rights scholars know that the key to waging an unfair fight is demonizing and dehumanizing your opponent.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2024

If the job of making these kinds of films is demonizing the subject, because everybody has decided that they should be demonized, then are you doing your job?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

“This is not a house here that is demonizing legitimate use of firearms in New Zealand, quite to the contrary.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019

I found pupil attendance a major factor in achievement, but who is demonizing irresponsible parents?

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012